Silver State in Winnemucca, Nevada

Odds and Ends Jokes and Bits From a Vermont Lamp to a Tree

A collage of humorous snippets and quips from a bygone page. A mother and children exchange wry lines about siblings and death, a lamp narrative turns to yarn, and a rustic blurb mingles with a parson’s musings. References include John Parker, Charles Lamb at cards, and a Texas note on Mr. Bastrop.